cd318
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| High Performance Audio - The End? @unreceivedogma,'Many people in this forum themselves care more about convenience.'Good observation.In my case I've gradually gone from a manual turntable to a CD player, then personally compiled CDs to avoid changing discs, then Minidisc for even... | |
| Thought My Harbeth M40.1's Were Forever Speakers - Guess Not @djones51,When I first read about the BBC research it was like a breath of fresh air. Especially after years of reading about ’musicality’, P.R.A.T. and the flat earth approach.The theory goes that untold millennia of evolution our hearing has bee... | |
| Thought My Harbeth M40.1's Were Forever Speakers - Guess Not Alan Shaw has often said he doesn’t believe in any audible break-in other than after a few initial seconds for the tweeter. Let’s not forget that he is in a far better position than most of us to compare new and used speakers/drivers - or also tha... | |
| Your favorite album cover... The Beatles 1967-70 (Blue Album)Rubber Soul Sgt PepperAbbey RoadBringing It All Back HomeWorld Gone WrongTrout Mask ReplicaThe Hangman's Beautiful DaughterMorrison HotelThere were tons of colourful and pretty LP sleeves from the likes of lounge ar... | |
| Just spoke to an old client of mine..........Avantgarde owner My Tannoy Dual Concentrics are pretty coherent. It’s nice initially, as if something less is happening, but it’s funny how quick you get used to this effect. I guess the reverse wouldn’t be so easy.Last year I heard some Monopulse active speakers ... | |
| KEF LS50 Meta @kenjit ,"I dont know where you read that it absorbs most of the backwave. It does not. The absorber is only used on the tweeter. Not the woofer."Yes, a real pity since most of the backwave is caused by the woofer. Still, even just an ’open backed... | |
| Thought My Harbeth M40.1's Were Forever Speakers - Guess Not @twoleftears ,"Your precis is a classic example of selective quotation.""Selective quotation"?Don't you think that's a little unfair seeing as how I've presented the whole interview in full?Perhaps a more pertinent question might be as why do you ... | |
| Member Almarg passed away last night @david_ten ,From Margaret:"Among all the other ways Al had positive contributions to make, perhaps, is that he was the first hospice patient at Yale to figure out how to pipe in music audio into the 4 Supportive Care Unit rooms."That's a lovely an... | |
| Thought My Harbeth M40.1's Were Forever Speakers - Guess Not @mapman ,"What exactly is the difference between 40.1 and 40.2?"Careful my friend, you're transgressing one of the cardinal sins of audio etiquette.Questions such as that one are almost taboo amongst audiophiles. The latest versions are always sup... | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? @johnk ,"I want my systems to sound as close to real music in real space as possible. This can be done fairly affordably if one DIY and knows what they are doing""This hobby is more about knowledge and less about spending. The more you know the be... | |
| Best speakers 5k 10 k @steve59 ,"Sony ss na2es"Definitely worth a look. I love it when giants like Sony pull out all the stops.For something more unconventional the Eclipse TD712z Mk2 are renowned for soundstage, timing and speed.Let's also not forget that there's more... | |
| The most criminal practice in the speaker industry revealed!! Keep reading It's amazing how there's so much antagonism towards the questions posed by this particular OP.Is this the audio equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome? Why should we rush to the defense of designers and manufacturers when it's patently clear that they a... | |
| The most criminal practice in the speaker industry revealed!! Keep reading "Audiophiles are no better at telling if one speaker is better than another purely by listening, than an average person is able to tell how cold a fridge is by putting their hand inside it!!!"Nice analogy."That’s right folks. VERY few folks are ac... | |
| To venture back into vinyl or not,...that is the question. It's so easy to advise spending a lot more than $500 because the real action seems to begin around the $800+ mark with decks like the Rega Planar 3 and the Pro-Ject Classic etc.Stuff like the entry Rega's, Pro-Ject's, Fluance's etc can only suffic... | |
| Beatles best album and concert dvd? @geof3,"I think both the red and blue “greatest hits” additions are must haves for a great overall Beatles mix."The Blue album was where it began for me. It’s a great compilation and apparently the tracks were chosen by the band themselves. The 19... |